Show CASE the spectacle which lias has been daily witnessed in tile united C states tates court since tho the commencement of the trial L of charles J guiteau lias has been humiliating ap and more like a farce than ft a fact in which the prisoner who ia is charged with the highest crime known to the law has been allowed to interrupt and contradict the counsel both for the prosecution and for the defense and to conduct himself in the most ridiculous manner manlier all under the pica plea of insanity we are held in derision by tile legal fraternity of great britain and other nations and they are v amazed to learn that the assassin is not removed from the bar f for r such unprecedented conduct and the trial allowed to proceed without his being present it is claimed that with few exceptions no one in the united states believes that guiteau is insane and a strong desire prevails throughout the nation for his conviction and punishment by hanging far for the tile murder of james A garfield the criminal while he admits doing the shooting denies that the ff death of his victim was the result of his shot he also admits that he intended to kill the president but that he had motives which ell justified the horrid deed now we know of nothing that would justify the act of one man shooting k down another unless it bo be in in self defense to prevent h his is own owl life being taken by the hand of an assailant tvs ailant but guiteaux Guite aus life was not in danger from his ilia victim or from any other person that we know of and all the circumstances connected with it show that the t M P C murder was premeditated and wilful the people of course disregard the pretended motive and demand that the culprit shall expiate his crime upon the scaffold all of which is perfectly right provided the jury find a verdict to that effect but even guiteau has rights which should not be violated he is onterial on trial for liis his miserable life and until the termination of the inquisition he should be protected every attempt therefore to kill him is not only foolish but wrong h and tends to obstruct the tile cause of justice and encourage mob law for any man to kill him in cold blood while he is being conveyed to and from the court ile house use is is in in our opinion no less loss murder than was the killing of james A garfield no man has the right to take ilic law into ins his own hand and mete out death summarily in ill such a case therefore we do not approve the motives of those who attempt to take ills ilia life to avenge garfield but aa as an exchange says sas there is is something positively shocking in the cool coal approval of marder as a punishment for murder which hag has been expressed in some parts of the country since guiteau was shot at in the prison ran tan by a man on horseback who did not hesitate to imperil the life of the officer accod hanping the prisoner in order to assassinate as the latter we can but regret such recklessness and regret also that the act finds expressions of approval b by y so k many people anc and I the regrets are so numerous that the bullet from jones weapon did not accomplish the purpose he be intended it to we believe that what is just for one criminal is just for another of y the same st stripe ripe wo we are therefore H pleased to learn that jones babben has been held for the action of the grand jury but there was another attempt to S take the life of the prisoner which f appears to be cither either forgotten or lost sight of altogether wo mean that of sergeant mason who was one of the guards appointed to pro hect the accused until he should be A tad and convicted or acquitted it is true that a court martial was ordered to try meson but for various reasons among which was that mason might be insane and therefore it would be well lvell not to hurry the trial it is thought bowe however ver that sufficient time ha hai elapsed since the breach of army discipline for the abhold absolutely pure ures e army surgeons to determine that I matter regular troops only were ft ere relied upon to guard guiteau in his confinement of course mason belonged to them and every roan man was expected to do his duty to protect not attempt to destroy the prisoner the N Y san S imsais says it is 13 generally understood in in arn arnay ly circle circles that alason will not be tried till after Guite guiteaux aus trial is ended why so if guiteau should be sentenced to be banned banged would that alter the military offenses of mason if guiteau should in ono one way or the other escape conviction by the jury would not a proper dealing with masons case be harder to secure than now would not a popular outcry of regret that his shot had bad not taken cf effect in somo some way thwart the tile penalty a r military aili tary court might wight impose on him birn in that case tho tile practical comment on an military discipline would be grave meanwhile a second self c constituted executioner of the assassin follows the lead of mason and who can tell how holy many more will follow their example and how long it will be before any man may constitute himself a judge and an executioner unless such proceedings arc are promptly ended in every instance in let tho the law be honored and I |